Howdon Dock, Newcastle

HER Number

14270

District

N Tyneside

Site Name

Howdon Dock, Newcastle

Place

Howdon

Map Sheet

NZ36NW

Class

Maritime Craft

Site Type: Broad

Fishing Vessel

Site Type: Specific

Whaler

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence

Wreckage

Description

English whaler which was burnt at Howden25-AUG to 27-AUG-1711, No.12 Dock, March 1766.

Easting

433590

Northing

566110

Grid Reference

NZ433590566110

Sources

National Monuments Record (971420); George B Hodgson 1904 Wreck register for the north-east coast : a complete list of local shipping disasters from the earliest times to the end of 1902, p6; Newcastle Courant 08-MAR-1766, No.4668 Page(s)2; "The Newcastle Whaling Trade", Tony Barrow: in http://www.markpalmer.fsnet.co.uk/family-tree/newcastle-whaling-trade-1.html [Accessed 04-FEB-2004]